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From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Liqin Chen <liqin.linux@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h: Add prefix 'SCORE_' for related macros
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:07:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A799E5.7040609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A70420.4010005@roeck-us.net>

On 06/23/2014 12:28 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 06/22/2014 01:09 AM, Lennox Wu wrote:
>> Hi Chen,
>> Do you find other modules except device modules cause issues of
>> compiling?
>> The applications of Score are limited. Acutally, some errors never occur
>> in the limited applications, for example, the conbination consists of
>> Score and the timer of SuperH. I'm not sure we should handle this kind
>> of error.
>> If the rule is that we should make sure "all" modules can be compiled
>> with Score, we will do it.
>> However, we still thanks for your check.
>>
> 
> Other architectures don't care about buildability of allmodconfig or
> allyesconfig
> (arm is a good [or maybe bad] example), so it is for sure not mandatory.
> On the other side, fixing such problems - especially when you have someone
> doing it for you - may prevent problems down the road, so while not
> mandatory
> I consider it a useful goal to achieve.
> 
> If there is a driver which doesn't make sense to build at all, such as
> the SuperH
> timer driver mentioned above, it can always be excluded from building
> with Kconfig.
> If that causes opposition for some reason, you can still ignore that it
> fails
> to build.
> 

Yeah, what Guenter said is fine to me.

Although allmodconfig is not mandatory, it is still a useful goal to
achieve.


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

Open, share, and attitude like air, water, and life which God blessed

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-23  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-22  4:48 [PATCH] arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h: Add prefix 'SCORE_' for related macros Chen Gang
2014-06-22  5:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-22  5:33   ` Chen Gang
2014-06-22 14:53     ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-22 15:02       ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-23  3:03         ` Chen Gang
2014-06-24 13:24           ` Chen Gang
2014-06-24 14:44             ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-25  0:28               ` Chen Gang
2014-06-27 10:12                 ` Chen Gang
2014-06-30  1:42                   ` Chen Gang
2014-06-22  8:09 ` Lennox Wu
2014-06-22 16:28   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-06-23  3:07     ` Chen Gang [this message]
2014-06-23  3:13       ` Lennox Wu
2014-06-23  3:10     ` Lennox Wu
2014-06-23  4:44       ` Chen Gang
2014-06-23  9:38 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-23 10:31   ` Chen Gang

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